Exercise Planning Analyst — Warfare Development and Lessons Learned for NATO with security clearance

Relocation to the United States Norfolk Virginia. We provide the NATO-5 visa.

A multinational defence organisation runs a large exercise programme and wants it aligned with where warfare development is going. This role does the joining up: the planning conferences the campaign documents and the after-action work that follows.

What you would be doing

• Carrying warfare development priorities and multi-domain objectives into the exercise enterprise.
• Supporting governance synchronisation and strategic alignment across that enterprise.
• Taking part in planning conferences workshops and coordination events.
• Developing refining and documenting exercise campaign plans and concepts.
• Using exercises to identify capability gaps refine concepts and assess emerging capabilities.
• Integrating the training innovation lines of effort realism new technology harder scenarios.
• Supporting after-action review and lessons-learned processes and drafting the formal reports and recommendations.
• Contributing to the rolling programmes of work.
• Coordinating with the other commands partners and external stakeholders.

What you would bring

• A bachelor or master degree in international relations defence or strategic studies political science emergency management or a related field or equivalent experience.
• At least five years in military exercise planning collective training or defence transformation.
• Familiarity with alliance exercise planning processes and their governing documents.
• Proven ability to draft professional planning documents reports and campaign plans.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Experience coordinating with multinational or interagency partners.
• Fluent professional English spoken and written.

This is a long engagement that renews year on year not a short project.